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7
DEATHS.
3,093 deaths were registered in the sub-districts of the Borough
during 1915.
32 of these deaths were of persons residing in other sanitary districts,
but who died in our streets or on the way to hospitals.
1,276 deaths occurred in the Poor-Law Institutions, the various
hospitals, and other public places for the treatment of the sick found
within our boundaries. These deaths in institutions comprised 609
belonging to Southwark and 667 to other sanitary districts.
The number of inhabitants belonging to the Borough dying away
from home—that is outside our boundaries in the various hospitals and
infirmaries—was 1,333. Of this very large number, as many as 928 died
in the Southwark Infirmary at Champion Hill. The remainder, with but
few exceptions, died in the large public hospitals.
When the 699 deaths of those persons who were non-parishioners,
but who died in our Borough, have been deducted, and the 1,333 " outlying"
deaths added, the actual or "corrected" number of deaths
belonging to the sanitary area is found to be 3,727, of which number
1,966 were males and 1761 females.
The death-rate when calculated on this "corrected" number is 20.8
per 1,000 inhabitants for the whole Borough for the year 1915, as against
a rate of 17.8 for 1914.
The percentage of persons dying away from Southwark in relation to
the total number of deaths belonging to the Borough was 35'7.
The various localities in which the "outlying" deaths occurred are
shown in the following table.